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Post# 106698 1/29/2006 at 22:56 (6,655 days old) by swestoyz  (Cedar Falls, IA) |
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Post# 106699 , Reply# 1 1/29/2006 at 22:57 (6,655 days old) by swestoyz (Cedar Falls, IA) |
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Post# 106701 , Reply# 2 1/29/2006 at 23:00 (6,655 days old) by swestoyz (Cedar Falls, IA) |
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Bonus Shot! | ||
| Post# 106751 , Reply# 4 1/30/2006 at 07:23 (6,654 days old) by mayken4now (Panama City, Florida) | ||
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Post# 106757 , Reply# 6 1/30/2006 at 07:47 (6,654 days old) by frigilux (The Minnesota Prairie) |
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| Post# 106783 , Reply# 7 1/30/2006 at 10:27 (6,654 days old) by frontaloadotmy (the cool gay realm) | ||
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Cyclops / Frogeye dg & frig I think the slang for those km is cyclops, the design they succeed are the frog eye. | ||
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Post# 106786 , Reply# 8 1/30/2006 at 10:34 (6,654 days old) by unimatic1140 (Minneapolis) |
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Yes Ben, Cory and Geoff came for a visit and Wash-in on Saturday. I had a great time, its always fun to show off the washers to people that truley can appreciate them. They took home the '59 D&M Frigidaire Dishwasher and the '56 RCA Color TV. I lost about 300lbs YAY! Ben and Cory when you guys have a chance I would love to see some of the pictures you took. | ||
| Post# 106788 , Reply# 9 1/30/2006 at 10:44 (6,654 days old) by peterh770 (Marietta, GA) | ||
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| Post# 106790 , Reply# 10 1/30/2006 at 11:01 (6,654 days old) by geoffdelp (SAUK RAPIDS) | ||
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I've always thought it looked like a Hamilton Dryer. How about the two front loaders? Are those both Philco Bendix? | ||
| Post# 106805 , Reply# 11 1/30/2006 at 12:31 (6,654 days old) by peterh770 (Marietta, GA) | ||
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| Post# 106809 , Reply# 12 1/30/2006 at 12:42 (6,654 days old) by geoffdelp (SAUK RAPIDS) | ||
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Oh sure, Peter ... you're right! Those dials on the Westinghouse should have been a dead give away!! I wonder if that's a Westinghouse washer or dryer ... or maybe the combo? | ||
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Post# 106836 , Reply# 14 1/30/2006 at 16:12 (6,654 days old) by gansky1 (Omaha, The Home of the TV Dinner!) |
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Great pictures - thanks for posting these, Ben. Geoff lent these books to me a while back and I had a great time reading through them - the pictures are awesome! I'd love to have Frank's job! I'd choose a different assistant though, not that Billie doesn't look like a nice person... Imagine setting up your own "projects" and experiments with all those machines! To see how long it takes the Maytag dryer to untangle and dry a load from the Frigidaire would be fascinating! Notice in one of the following pictures with Billie and her pyrometer, there is a Kenmore in the back row between the Bendix and the Maytag washer. | ||
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Post# 106849 , Reply# 16 1/30/2006 at 17:03 (6,654 days old) by frigilux (The Minnesota Prairie) |
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The late 40's and early 50's must have been an exciting time in the appliance industry. I've heard many times that since so many manufacturing plants were retooled for the war effort, appliances were a fairly scare commodity. Then to have automatic washers/dryers/dishwashers come on to the scene... A sales explosion!! Thanks for posting the pic and article. | ||
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Post# 106940 , Reply# 17 1/31/2006 at 00:04 (6,654 days old) by sudsmaster (SF Bay Area, California) |
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Ben & Geoff, Thanks for making the Maytag newsletter available here. Something caught my eye in the story. The bit about housewives using soap in automatic washers in hard water, resulting in a soap scum deposit inside the machines. The Maytag testing lab "discovered" that a "pound of glacial acetic acid" would remove the deposit. That's a bit alarming. For one thing, most people just can't get glacial acetic acid except from a chemical warehouse or laboratory. For another, when I worked in a chemistry lab, I always decanted glacial acetic acid in a fume hood. It's like super concentrated vinegar, and the fumes are not nice to breathe in. A pound of that stuff is about a pint... and being a concentrated acid, it should be added slowly to a tub full of water, not the other way round. So I very much doubt it was a practical household remedy for soap scum deposits. Of course, there was a simpler solution... add some STPP to the tub before adding the soap. But I don't think STPP came into widespread use until much later. | ||
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Post# 106952 , Reply# 18 1/31/2006 at 02:17 (6,653 days old) by launderess (Quiet Please, There´s a Lady on Stage) |
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